cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/10692187
so, the company was Vastaamo. was because it got bankrupt after the breach, and GDPR violations.
the “hacker”(or rather cracker) was extradited from France to Finland.
you can read about how terrible the company’s security was here: https://tietosuoja.fi/en/-/administrative-fine-imposed-on-psychotherapy-centre-vastaamo-for-data-protection-violationsor watch mental outlaw’s video on the matter, or the Wikipedia article on the breach.
now there are several things that shouldn’t have happened (e.g.: don’t do these things on your main OS, have root access disabled, etc.), but I’ll leave that to you experts.
That’s a start, but on its own pretty meaningless. A suspended sentence means he does not go to prison, so long as he behaves himself for a year or however long.
The article doesn’t go into it, but I hope he was also fined heavily. All we have is “the court determined it could not be resolve through fines, a prison sentence is warranted”.